We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.